Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.

In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump lashed out at the criticism he’s faced for his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, which failed to result in a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.

Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.

A key senator on the Foreign Relations committee called Donald Trump’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin a “disaster” Sunday and blamed the U.S. president for legitimizing his Russian opponent in front of the world.

The meeting follows President Donald Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, after which Trump told allies that Putin wanted Ukraine’s Donbas.